Event-sourced architectures with Akka - Sander Mak

Different JVM languages lead to different architectural styles. We all know the typical three-tiered architecture and its limitations. Akka and Scala offer event-sourcing. Event-sourced apps model all state changes explicitly and store them immutably. The actor model makes this horizontally scalable. Even better are the functional benefits: a provably correct auditlog and creating new views on past data. This session introduces the event-sourcing concepts. You’ll see how well they map onto actors. To prove this, we show an event-sourced application using Akka. The new Akka Persistence module provides excellent building blocks. Want to learn about the next generation of scalable architectures on the JVM? Check out event-sourcing with Akka!